FOWLES. JOHNTHE COLLECTOR Jonathan Cape. London. 1963. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). The Authors first novel. Neat three line inscription (interestingly from a J. Fowles, but not the author) on the front blank endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with some light rubbing to the extremities but still overall a nice and clean copy.

Fowles, JohnThe Collector Jonathan Cape, London 1963 - Very good copy indeed with rust coloured boards and original wrapper unclipped and without reviews. Owner's name embossed neatly and discretly on ffp. Jacket is bright and clean with minimum chipping/wear to ends of spine. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Salinger, J. DRAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS AND SEYMOUR AN INTRODUCTION Boston:: Little, Brown. [1963]. First edition. Actually published in 1963, although copyright page states 1959. First issue, lacking the dedication page. Starosciak, in his 1971 bibliography of Salinger, estimated that 30 advance copies without the dedication page were printed. There may have been more but this state/issue is quite scarce. The book is a little faded on spine and the bottom back hinge is a little sprung but still very good in a very good to near fine dust jacket very slightly toned at spine and with a few tiny chips and rubbed spots.

Anderson, PoulLET THE SPACEMEN BEWARE! [Original typescript manuscript] No place 1963 - Original typescript submitted to the Scott Meredith Literary Agency and published as Ace Double F-209. Signed by Anderson on the first page. 119 sheets typed on rectos only. Numerous corrections by Anderson and the editor. Initial and final pages show some wear, else very good plus. The manuscript is laid into a special maroon clam shell case with a title label on the spine. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

Beckett, Samuel:DRAMATISCHE DICHTUNGEN BAND I [and:] BAND 2 [Frankfurt am Main]: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963 & 1964.. Two volumes. 529,[6];423,[6]pp. Uniform publisher&#39;s charcoal gray linen, silk markers. A couple of marginal finger smudges toward the rear of the first volume, otherwise very good or better, in modestly nicked and chipped dust jackets with some hand soiling to the spines. First collective edition of these translations printed parallel with the French or English texts, including the first appearance in book form of "Act Sans Paroles II." The German translations were accomplished by Elmar Tophoven. An excellent association set, inscribed in each volume by Beckett to his friends Jack and Gloria [MacGowran]: "for Jack & Gloria with love & gratitude Sam Paris Feb. 1964" and "for Jack & Gloria with love from Sam Paris Jan. 1965." Jack MacGowran (1918-1973) was closely identified with several major roles in Beckett&#39;s plays, including that of Lucky in Godot at the Royal Court Theatre and the Obie winning off-Broadway anthology, "MacGowran in the works of Beckett." Until his premature death at the age of 54, he and his wife Gloria remained among Beckett&#39;s closest and most constant friends. F&F 270 & 34.3.

HAWKES, John. (BARTHELME, Donald)Typescript]: Cleopatra's Car [a chapter in Second Skin] 1963 - Thirty page typescript, with a one page Typed Letter Signed by Donald Barthelme. Loose sheets attached by a staple with some rubbing, a crease to the final sheet, and some wear near the staple, near fine. The letter is very good or better with moderate toning and an indentation from a paper clip. The original typescript of "Cleopatra's Car," a chapter from Hawkes's 1964 book *Second Skin*, with a few scattered corrections in an unknown hand and with substantial differences from the final published version. Hawkes's name and address are in the upper left-hand corner but have been struck through in pencil and the address of the book's publisher, New Directions, is written underneath with a note referencing *Second Skin*, in publisher James Laughlin's hand. This chapter was apparently submitted for publication to the literary magazine *Location* but, according to the accompanying TLS from editor Donald Barthelme, was "not quite what we're looking for." Accompanied by a first edition of *Second Skin* (New York: New Directions 1964, fine in near fine dustwrapper).

PYNCHON, ThomasV Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. (1963). First. First edition. Sunned at the edges of the boards else near fine, with the topstain bright, in a modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Complimentary copy with a card from Lippincott employee Thomas C. Martin laid in. A nice copy of the author&#39;s first book. .

Beaumont, Charles (signed twice)( Pen Name for Charles Nutt )Remember? Remember?: A Nostalgic Backward Glance at Some of Yesteryears Most Beloved Features of Our National Profile ---a Copy Signed By Charles Beaumont, Signed twice N.Y.: MacMillan, 1963, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1963. ---------hardcover, a Very Good+ copy with a bit of foxing and rubbing to boards, in a Very Good dustjacket with a bit of light wear, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, some age toning to the textblock, small stain to the fore edge of the text block, signed by Beaumont on the half title page AND the title page, Beaumont&#39;s collection of essays, many of which came from Playboy magazine, a particularly good article on Pulp Magazines called The Bloody Pulps, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Leo Manso Cover Design.

BROWN, FREDRIC.THE SHAGGY DOG AND OTHER MURDERS. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1963. - First edition. Fine in dust jacket with a hint of wear to the foot of spine. Ten short stories that deserve attention. Includes The Shaggy Dog Murders featuring a large dog that looks friendly but death seems to be present when it's around; Life and Fire and Whistler's Murder feature Henry Smith, an insurance salesman, who picks his clients poorly; they range from a gang of kidnappers to a murder suspect; Teacup Trouble is a humorous tale about a pickpocket who meets more than his match when he takes in a kleptomaniac as a roommate; Good Night, Good Knight is the story of an elegant Bowery bum, whose ambition is to act the role he lives as a blackmailer. In Beware of the Dog a friendly animal becomes more of a detriment than a hostile one; a modern-day boy starting on a life of crime discovers the value of old-fashioned ways in Little Boy Lost; Satan One-And-A-Half shows that dead cats can go visiting; Tell 'Em, Pagliaccio! proves how nice it is that an elephant never forgets. The final story, Nothing Sinister, demonstrates why men should be more suspicious of stray bullets. An elusive title and a sharp copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Jacqueline KennedyAn historically important linen dress, made from fabric brought back by Jackie Kennedy from her controversial October 1963 Greek vacation where she spent two weeks aboard Aristotle Onassis' yacht [Washington] A simple and elegant linen dress, embroidered with gold thread with depictions of the Acropolis, measuring approximately 40" from shoulder to hem, with a matching belt, made for Jacqueline Kennedy's personal secretary Mary Gallagher by White House seamstress Lucinda Morman, c. October-November 1963. The fabric was obtained by the First Lady during her controversial vacation in Greece taken during the first two weeks of October 1963 aboard Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The dress and belt are accompanied by a box of Prym's Super Steel Sonomor satin pins which also contains a tape measure, together with a small swatch of the same fabric used for the dress, all housed in a manila White House envelope. The dress is in overall excellent condition bearing only a few very minor stains toward the hem, together with some mild fraying to one end of the belt. Following the tragic stillbirth of her son Patrick, Jacqueline Kennedy went into a deep depression. Her younger sister, Lee Radziwi

Le Carre, John (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell)A MURDER OF QUALITY New York: Walker and Company,. [1963]. Octavo,. cloth.. A very good plus copy in very good dust jacket with fading to spine. panel as usual, closed tear to upper front panel at flap fold, mild. edge wear, and rubbing and light chipping to spine ends. (#125589). First U.S. edition. The author&#39;s second novel. George Smiley investigates a murder at an important public school.

HIMES, ChesterUne Affaire de Viol [A Case Of Rape] Paris: Editions Les Yeux Ouverts. (1963). First. First edition, text in French. A small, light stain to the top of the rear wrap else fine in glassine dustwrapper. This copy Signed by Himes in Venelles, France. Himes inscriptions are very scarce. .

Miller, HenryBlack Spring Grove Press 1963 - Third printing. Inscribed to his friend (and collector) Pierre Sicari and SIGNED and dated by Henry Miller on the front endpaper. The volume is bumped on the spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket is rubbed and lightly abraided on the edges and is nicked at the spine ends and corners. The jacket is now protected in mylar. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Maurice SendakWhere the Wild Things Are Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition, Second Issue. hardcover. Very Good/Fair+. Maurice Sendak. The 1963 first edition was recalled when the book won the Caldecott Prize for 1964, and then re-issued with the gold Caldecott medal affixed to the dust jacket. First Edition, Second Issue. Unpaginated. Near fine, pages white, colors unfaded, unmarked. DJ is second issue, colors not as clear as inside art. Front flap is price-clipped, with publisher&#39;s code 40-80 / 1163, two reviews on front flap, mention of 1964 Caldecott and NY Times prizes at top and bottom of rear flap with no later information. DJ has tears at top and bottom of spine, rough edges, some spotting. The gilt Caldecott medal is slightly crumpled in two places. Second issue dust jacket with the Caldecott medal adhered, rear flap mentions Caldecott and New York Times awards but no later information.

[Okito, i.e., Theodore Bamberg][ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT EULOGY FOR THEODORE BAMBERG, "OKITO," INCLUDING OBITUARY] [laid into]: OKITO ON MAGIC REMINISCENCES AND SELECTED TRICKS [Chicago, 1963]. First Edition. Near fine. 8 pp. on eight leaves (typed on rectos only). 8.5 x 5.5 inches. First page inscribed, "7-1-63 Weinstein Bros. Chapel 1300." Second page signed or inscribed, "Rabbi [or "Robbi"] Fischer." With newspaper clippings of Bamberg&#39;s obituaries in the Chicago Daily News, June 29, 1963, and the Chicago Tribune, June 30, 1963. Near fine, laid into a copy of Bamberg&#39;s scarce 1952 memoir, OKITO ON MAGIC... (a very good copy in a fair dust jacket with significant loss to the rear panel). Theodore Bamberg (1875-1963) was the sixth generation of a great Dutch dynasty of necromancers, conjurers, and royal court magicians, the inventor of many of the early 20th century&#39;s most brilliant magical apparatuses, and, as Okito, a performer legendary for his artistry and elegance upon the stage. In his later life, after losing all of his equipment and possessions to the Nazis during World War II, moving to Chicago, and publishing OKITO ON MAGIC in 1952, Bamberg began to fade into obscurity and solitude, "alone and living a spartan life in a second-rate hotel in Chicago," as David Meyer documented in INCLINED TOWARD MAGIC (Chicago, 2003, p. 85). & & Bamberg&#39;s son Donald visited his father from the Netherlands shortly before the former&#39;s death in 1963. Meeting with Theodore&#39;s friends, magician Jay Marshall and magic dealer Joe Palen, father and son asked that Theodore might be given a Christian funeral, which Marshall communicated to author of the present eulogy. Theodore died June 28, and his memorial service was held July 1, officiated by this document&#39;s author, evidently a Christian minister and friend to the magic community. & & In addition to the eulogy, the document includes scriptural readings and an obituary that was evidently the source for Bamberg&#39;s death notices in the Chicago papers. The eulogy sensitively acknowledges the Bambergs&#39; Jewish background and Donald&#39;s imprisonment at Dachau, and it commemorates Bamberg&#39;s life and career with a series of affectionate reminiscences, including the author&#39;s own. The eulogist writes a warm account of his first exposure to Okito as an eleven-year-old boy in Kansas City. Having just lost their mother, he and his sister were given two dollars each by their father to spend on their own gifts for Christmas: & & "We both went straight to Emery Bird Thayer&#39;s, a large downtown department store in K.C. We went straight up to the fifth floor - the toy department. I had not been there two minutes before a man behind a counter called me over close. He shook out a little red handkerchief, pushed it into his fist, made some magic passes&#133; and the handkerchief was gone! Can I do it? Yes, he said. Just buy this $2.00 magic set. You&#146;ll get this trick and a dozen others. I don&#146;t know how he knew what I wanted&#133;. I don&#146;t know how he knew how much money I had - $2.00. But that did it. & & "The few days from then till Christmas seemed like years. I devoured every line of the book of instructions of Gilbert&#39;s Mysto Magic, and read in between the lines. One of the tricks was a version of the Okito Coin Box. That was my introduction to Theodore Bamberg (p. 6)." & & Later, the author met Okito in person: & & "During these years his name ha[d] been a legend to all of us. I remember going into Joe Berg&#39;s magic store at 30 West Washington. Joe apparently was out, and an elderly gentleman came out from behind the partition. I asked him his name. &#39;Okito - Theodore Bamberg.&#39; I looked at him with unbelieving eyes. I was as amazed and stricken with awe as I was when I first saw the ancient walled city and castle at Carcasonne, in souther[n] France. I was as entranced as I was when I first saw suits of real armor, such as knights wore in days of yore, in the museum at the Doge&#39;s palace in Venice. & & "All of us have been entranced by Okito since that time (p. 6)." & & A significant and moving document, from the final parting of one of 20th-century magic&#39;s most influential and beloved figures.

Shahn, Ben (Artist & Illustrator; 1898-1969).Love and Joy About Letters. Grossman Publishers, New York. "This is a special edition signed by the author and limited to one hundred copies, of which this is No. 62 [signed]: Ben Shahn". 1963 - "Printed in Lucerne, Switzerland, by Camera Publishers, C. J. Bucher, Ltd. The text was arranged by Joseph Blumenthal and set in his Emerson type at The Spiral Press, New York". 13 3/4 inches x 10 1/4 in., 79 pp. with mounted limitation label on p. 79, and Ben Shahn's signature in brown ink, under this label. Reproduces Ben Shahn's art work in color and black & white, and other illustrations, including examples of oriental calligraphy; drawings, etc. Section of notes on some of the illustrations, including book illustrations, Biblical material and posters created by Ben Shahn, many using both Hebrew and English language lettering. Color-printed cloth covers with a Ben Shahn design; in a sturdy, black cloth-covered slipcase, with a mounted reproduction of a Ben Shahn design using Hebrew letters, on one side. Cloth on the slipcase shows very light wear, fading; a few tiny crimps to some page's lower corners. Very scarce limited, signed edition in the black cloth slipcase. Weight: 4 lbs. Postage is extra on this item. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Vargas Llosa, MarioLA CIUDAD Y LOS PERROS (THE TIME OF THE HERO) Editorial Seix Barral, Barcelona 1963 - First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cream self-wrappers, printed in black and red; 10 pp. insert on pale orange paper regarding the judging and presentation of El Premio Biblioteca Breve, [1] fold-out map, 343pp, [6]. Spine lightly sunned, foxing to upper edge of text, with a few chips to yapped edges, and a 1.75 inch closed tear along upper rear hinge; still Very Good+ withal, and clean throughout. The photo-illustrated dustjacket measures 3/8 inch taller than the book, resulting in some tears and associated creasing, and two shallow chips to upper and lower left corners at spine ends; some light, scattered soil and wear along edges to note otherwise - a presentable, Very Good+ example. The Nobel Prize-winner's first novel, based very loosely on events in the author's teenage years. The story is set in a boys' military academy in Lima, Peru, similar to an academy Vargas Llosa attended. Due to the incendiary portrayal of certain authoritarian figures, as well as frank portrayals of homosexuality and an act of bestiality, the novel was banned in Peru, and copies of the book were burned in protest at the academy that served as the model for the fictional setting. Basis for a 1985 film adaptation directed by Francisco Lombardi, and quite scarce in any sort of presentable dustjacket. [Attributes: First Edition]

LE CARRE, John.The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. 1963 1963 - London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth with gilt title along spine. In fine (albeit price-clipped) dustjacket. (222pp.). First Edition: 2nd printing before publication. Name on front fly-leaf, and old tape marks on endpapers, otherwise fine.

DUNCAN, Robert and Jess CollinsSigned Christmas Card Handmade Christmas card for 1963. Measuring 5.5" x 7.75". Older lithographed illustration of a rose affixed onto a folded card, inside has a printed "Merry Christmas" with a handwritten greeting: "and a Happy New Year 1963-1964 from Robert Duncan and Jess Collins," with a hand-drawn ornament and star surrounding the printed "Merry Christmas." .

Burgess, Anthony as Joseph KellINSIDE MR. ENDERBY. Heinemann, London 1963 - First edition. Original green cloth in a neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. A very fine, fresh copy, seldom encountered thus. 8vo. The author's second and last, pseudonymous novel, for which he gave away his Yorkshire Post cover by reviewing his first such novel himself and was subsequently relieved of his position as reviewer. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Boulle, PierreLa Planète Des Singes [The Planet of the Apes] - 1st Edition/1st Printing René Julliard, Paris 1963 - Le Cercle du nouveau livre (Book Club) and true First Edition of the original French text, published before the translations into other languages. This Fine limited numbered edition is bound in patterned green cloth with gilt lettering. No dustjacket, as issued. Copy number 314 of an unstated limitation; Earth astronauts visit a far planet where apes dominate humans as a despised underclass. Translated into English as Planet of the Apes (U. S. 1963) and Monkey Planet (Britain 1964) and later into other languages. One of the most important books in the history of science fiction; the basis for two major motion pictures, television series, comic books, etc [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

(LAWRENCE, T. E.) OCAMPO, Victoria338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia) New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,, 1963. Translated by David Garnett. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket with a small crease to the corner of the upper panel. First US edition, first printing. Originally published in London in the same year. Inscribed by the author to Hollywood screenwriter Anita Loos, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, on the front free endpaper, "To Anita Loos, with my best wishes, Victoria Ocampo. Nov 4/63, New York, Waldorf Astoria." With Loos&#39; estate ink stamp on the front free endpaper.